09 Sep 2005, 11:34 a.m.

Your Sense Of Disenchantment

"Holy!"

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08 Sep 2005, 16:21 p.m.

Little Things

My column got moved to Sundays. Will Franken has shows this Saturday. Yesterday was a Hindu holy day celebrating Ganesha. Also yesterday, the Captivate screens in the elevator broke and we saw PC reboot screens …

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07 Sep 2005, 19:07 p.m.

Future Travels

I'm going to be in Washington, DC and New York City in the last several days of October. If anyone who reads this wants to hang out around then, please let me know! Adam, I …

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06 Sep 2005, 19:38 p.m.

Jobs

There are bunch of job openings at Salon. Whether you know marketing, sales, or tech, you might find a place at Salon.

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05 Sep 2005, 10:24 a.m.

Agreement

Like Seth's, my birthday is also approaching, and I would urge that anyone thinking of buying me a birthday present instead donate to one of his favorite charities. Other preferred charities include Fix Our Ferals. …

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03 Sep 2005, 15:00 p.m.

Message From The Astrodome

"be glad for your jobs, your homes, your troubles..."

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02 Sep 2005, 11:55 a.m.

Impulses

What we are now learning about the devastation in the Gulf combines with a growing desire, borne of my working life, to become a manager, a good one.

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02 Sep 2005, 9:20 a.m.

Life, Liberty and Property

I have been watching CNN. The Houston Astrodome now has its own ZIP code and the people who run it have cleared the Astrodome schedule through December. What is the proper function of a government? …

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01 Sep 2005, 10:13 a.m.

Phillip Robertson Is Braver Than I'll Ever Be

I have the freedom to yammer on about literature. I'm not in Iraq. Hajji Qais had been on Al Mutanabbi street for 10 years and the vendors all knew him. He sold greeting cards for …

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01 Sep 2005, 10:08 a.m.

Nice Moment

The BART conductor told people getting off at Montgomery Station at 8:30am: "See you again in eight and a half hours."

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